Christopher Spink

Position: Senior Reporter

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Kroes keeps up pressure

Kroes does not dispute that. What she does insist on is that such aid cannot be effectively propping up the bank indefinitely, allowing the balance sheet, and hence the bank's business, to remain bigger than it should be, if it were not for that aid.  Full Article 

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X-raying Xstrata

The current tilt at Anglo American, now worth £24 billon, looks a deal too far for Xstrata.  Full Article | Comments [2] 

GM: genetic modification?

Henry Ford might have said history is bunk but it is still humbling for all Americans to see Ford's great rival rescued by the Government, wiping out most bondholders and shareholders. What happens next?  Full Article | Comments [8]